What are your thoughts on the European Union

[Tabiti]

If it is for national respect, help and open borders within the union, yes!
But seems the EU direction is quite different - establishing multiculturalism, making rich states poorer and poor even poorer. Some gang in Brussels controls the whole union, trying to erase national identities developed for thousands of years, just to make profit in certain economical spheres.
We are not USA, nor USSR, nor the Roman Empire and would never been like them. Unique, independence and diversity, that don't stand against mutual aid and national respect - those must be the ideals Europe should achieve, because they formed the whole European culture, an world standart!

[SwordoftheVistula]

I believe that the negative feelings should be directed towards the politicians of the Union, and not the Union itself.

A union of this nature is going to produce politicians of that sort. Bad politicians tend to get elected because other the people voting for them don't feel the effects of their decisions, and because they can fool people with the media. Both effects are aggravated by geographic distance.

[Svarog]

The way to easier control European people, why loads of small countries, that have their identity, culture to preserve, tradition, pride and history to base their future on when they can have one big gray union of mindless morons with no tradition or identity, that share same laws and live by the same rules, and difference between nations cannot be told?

Bah, European Union is the same as the women or men that likes to "unite" with a lot of people, one big whore and nothing else. Hey, can I come and shop in your country, I see mini towels are 50% off, not that I need them but tele-shop said they are great, I pay in euros and dignity